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Various Artists
Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton V1
Genres: Folk, International Music

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Countess of Crawford /The Connoisseur ... [Air] - Backus, Zeke
2. Doctor Macleod of Alnick - Ross, P.M. A.
3. The Man in the Moon/Highlander Over the Border/Smash the Windows/The Frost - Traditional
4. Mr. Marshall's Favorite [Air] - Traditional
5. A Trip to Mabou Ridge /Mabou Coal Mines /Sir Reginald [Strathspey] - MacEachern, Dan Hug
6. Mo M?thair (My Mother) /The Strong Man of the ... - Gow, Niel
7. Christy Campbell/Anthony Murray /Bodach Fodair (The Straw [Strathspeys] - Traditional
8. The Athole Highlander's Farewell to Loch Katrine /Miss ... [March] - MacKintosh, Robert
9. Queen Elizabeth's/Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's ... - Rose, Aeneas
10. A Tribute to Elizabeth Beaton/Traditional (Strathspey)/Traditional ... - Morris, Angus
11. Srath-Sp? (Strathspey) /Struan Robertson's/Bog an Lachan ... [Air] - MacLellan, Rannie
12. The Rover's Return/The Irishman's Heart to the Ladies/Cock O' the North - Traditional
13. The North Hunt Medley/The Stormont Lads /Cutty Sark/Lady ... [Strathspeys] - Cumming, John
14. Captain Campbell /Hoch Hey Johnny Lad/Lucy Campbell ... [March] - MacDonald, Dan R.

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton V1
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder
Release Date: 9/22/2009
Genres: Folk, International Music
Styles: Contemporary Folk, Celtic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 682161703725

Synopsis

Album Description

I try to put the old Scots feel - the Gaelic - into my music, one of our artists once remarked, but his words might speak equally for all of the cherished performers found on this four volume compilation of recently recorded "old-style" Cape Breton violin music. Each CD features a different group of fiddlers from various parts of the island. The present collection centers upon Inverness County, especially the little villages around Mabou. Featuring fiddlers Gregory Campbell, Alex Francis MacKay, Rannie MacLellan, Johnny MacLeod, Fr. Angus Morris Produced by Morgan MacQuarrie and Mark Wilson

CD Reviews

Top of the line fiddle music

E. N. Anderson | Riverside, CA USA | 11/02/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This record and its companion, "The Rover's Return," make up a set that is as fine as any collection of folk music on record. Anyone familiar with fiddling will know that the Cape Breton fiddlers are unexcelled. This pair of recordings has two huge advantages. First, it documents local old-time styles with particularly fine examples. Second, each record comes with a truly superb booklet--maybe "short book" would be better. The booklets provide deep histories and technical accounts of the styles, and biographies of the performers. Careful wording allows amazing amounts of information to be packaged in a small format. Also, the booklets are unashamedly partisan--the authors love the music and are advocates for it. How refreshingly preferable to the weasel-worded "everybody's nice" school of folk-music scholarship.

I am saddened that no one has seen fit to single out these recordings before. Reader, if you have the slightest interest in folk music, or violin music, buy these records. Even if your violin tastes run heavily to Bach and Vivaldi and you have never explored traditional folk music, you will love these records to distraction--if you can give yourself time to accommodate your ear to a unique, intricate, stunningly effective local style."